Users of Meta’s Facebook and Messenger apps will now automatically gain the protections of end-to-end encryption, a major boost to security and privacy, the company said Wednesday. The ...

As a devastating wildfire burned through a Maui town, killing more than 100 people, emergency management employees traded dozens of text messages, creating a record that would later help investigators ...

While contact networks through smartphones have become indispensable for large criminal organizations, there is also the risk that the entire criminal organization will be leaked from the history and ...

Think twice before sending your next text message. Or better yet, make sure you are using an end-to-end encryption method. End-to-end encryption helps ensure that only the intended recipients can read ...

X, formerly known as Twitter, has taken another step toward Musk’s grand vision of becoming an all-in-one platform, launching its latest feature, XChat, for select paid users. This new messaging tool ...

Federal authorities announced hackers in China have stolen "customer call records data" of an unknown number of Americans, but encrypted messaging could be the first line of defense for people in the ...

Apple Tips Upcoming Encrypted RCS Messaging Between iOS, Android With the GSMA releasing new RCS specs, Apple pledges to 'add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and ...

Open Whisper Systems, a provider of security-related technologies and apps for mobile devices, has started rolling out an Android version of its private messaging and calling iOS app Signal. In doing ...

IT IS ILLEGAL for Americans to export weapons without a licence. You may not FedEx a ballistic missile to Europe or post a frigate to Asia. But in the 1990s the country’s labyrinthine arms-export ...